CMD+Shift Design

Well, you’re supposed to share screen shots – but a few of the shots I made this week were from photos taken of some recent print work. So far, dribbbles been fun, but it really is more of a way to share stuff for inspiration more than to get critique, it seems.

If you’re looking for some guidance on designs in progress, check out ConceptFeedback.com!

…and in case you were wondering – nope. I don’t have any Dribbble invites yet.

Hello everyone! I started this wild idea that got into my head near the end of 2009 — to take the last 2+ years of blog posts that I have written about the lessons I’ve learned on my freelance journey and compile, edit and expand on them to create a comprehensive ebook that can help any new freelancers make the leap, or get some conversations started between seasoned independents.

So far I have only had a few hours to dedicate to the project, started out by corralling all my freelance related posts and am now working on going over the content from each and trying to see how I can organize it all into something that works in a book format. This is already proving to be a BIG project, and a little overwhelming, but I really want to do it! I’m reaching out to all of you to maybe give me some direction. Is there any content you feel like I haven’t touched on in the blog yet that I should cover? Do you think this is a ridiculous idea? Any title ideas? :)

I love you all and am excited to hear any ideas you want to throw out at me! Leave a comment, @cmdshiftdesign me on Twitter or email me, (info at cmdshiftdesign dot com!)

Happy New Year everyone! The last weeks been a big mess, so I just thought I’d check in and let you all know what’s happening.  After the last month of endless holiday and end of year obligations, I returned home last week with a little more than a few gifts, I had a nasty cold that knocked me on my butt for the whole week and the homepage of my portfolio site had been interjected with some malicious code and blacklisted by Google.

*SIGH*

Well, I was able to get my site back on Googles good side. I found and eliminated the code — which luckily was only on ONE page of my portfolio site and hadn’t effected any of the WordPress blog. Since none of the other sites hosted on my server were effected, I believe the attack was most likely allowed through by a weakness in a certain 3rd party statistics service I have been using. I’ve quit using the suspected service and am keeping a close eye on things around here. Changed my account passwords, etc, etc. For all the stress and headache of having my site offline was, once I logged into Googles Webmaster’s Tools and alerted them that the issue had been resolved, it only took about 6 hours for my site to be out of quarantine. (Not too bad.)

After all this, today I am back to work. I have a new office chair which is proving to be very comfortable! (I wish I had invested in this a long time ago!) Later this week I’ll start back up on more regular posting… maybe even a video (since I got a new snazzy camera now too!)